masscomp@cortex.neuro.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber, Moderator) (06/24/89)
This is a call for discussion to change the name of the moderated newsgroup "comp.sys.masscomp" to "comp.sys.concurrent". Since MASSCOMP was purchased by Concurrent and since the MASSCOMP USERS' SOCIETY has been absorbed by INTERCHANGE (The Concurrent User's organization), it seems appropriate to change the name of the group and it's charter to conver the way things have become. Please comment and on July 23rd we will call for a vote to change the name of comp.sys.masscomp to comp.sys.concurrent. Comments can be posted to news.groups or comp.sys.masscomp. If the latter, I will crosspost them to news.groups. STAN BARBER, Moderator of comp.sys.masscomp masscomp-request@soma.bcm.tmc.edu Articles to: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu or uunet!soma.bcm.tmc.edu!masscomp Administrative stuff: masscomp-request@soma.bcm.tmc.edu Stan Barber, Moderator
clemc%ccc@rutgers.uucp (Clem Cole) (07/17/89)
Let's get that right. Concurrent did not purchase MASSCOMP (even though it may seem that way). MASSCOMP purchased Concurrent but changed its name to Concurrent. The Concurrent stock holders got new certificates not the MASSCOMP stock holders. MASSCOMP's Board was kept in-tack with 2 changes. Jim Simms was named as the President and one new member was added (a retired Naval Adm. who's name escapes me at the moment.) Just trying to set the record straight. -- Clem Cole Cole Computer Consulting uunet!ccc!clemc uucp 255 North Road #119 clemc@ccc.com Internet Chelmsford, MA 01824-1402 (508) 256-6967 voice [Appologies. Clem is correct. MASSCOMP did buy Concurrent and part of the deal was to give up their identity and become Concurrent. -- sob] Articles to: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu or uunet!soma.bcm.tmc.edu!masscomp Administrative stuff: masscomp-request@soma.bcm.tmc.edu Stan Barber, Moderator
dale@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (07/19/89)
At the MUS business meeting which was held at the national meeting in May, the membership unamimously voted to merge MUS with Interchange. I admit that am remiss in not following up on my requst to have someone else post a summary of the meeting. (mea culpa) There will be a summary in the forthcomming Musings. In esense, the merger (of MUS and Interchange) will: 1) Incorporate MUS members (who are currently paid up) into Interchange with all the rights and privledges etc. (Including a BBS system with an 800 number which you are encouraged to login to and use.) We have convinced Interchange to allow single person memberships for $50 per year. Previously, they only had 4 person group memberships for $150/yr. The group rate is still available, and is a better deal if you have several people. 2) Allow us two temporary positions on the Executive Committee, one for two years, and one for one year. At the MUS meeting, Jim Schultz was elected to the two year position, and I (Dale Chayes) was elected to the one year position. (In fact, Jim and I attended a two day meeting of the Interchange excom in Tinton Falls earlier this week.) 3) Create two new Special Interest Groups, Data Acq and RTU. Gary Cook (of Marathon Oil) was elected (at the MUS meeting) as SIG chair for Data Acq and I (Dale Chayes) was elected to the RTU SIG Chair. 4) Give us the oportunity to have an RTU oriented person as the next chair of the Graphics Sig. Larry Rogers (of Defence Engineering Systems) was elected by MUS to take up the Graphics SIG chair begining at the Interchange meeting in October. The Interchange annual meeting is at the Hotel Royal Plaza, Walt Disney World, Village in Lake Buena Vista, Florida on October 16-20. There are a number of RTU related sessions scheduled as well as SIG group sessions which will be of interest to us, so I encourage you to consider attending. I think that one of the fundamental advantages of the merger off the user groups is that it allies us with a group large enough so that there are enough active volunteers to plan meetings, deal with the triva, AND have active SIGS, but only if you contribute too, so pick up the phone (or the modem and go!) I would like to point out that we had a much higher percentage of registered members show up at the business meeting (~55%) than has been the norm in the few years that I have been a MUS member. I assume that this was because of the gravity of the decisions to be taken. There will be one more issue of Musings going to press shortly with more details. If you are a paid up memeber, you should have received your first copy of the Interchange newsletter recently. Its depth and quality are representative of my experiences with Interchange thus far. However, there is very little about kind of hardware and software that we use. The only way to remedy that is for YOU to contribute. The interesting action in Interchange is in the SIGS, so please get in touch with one or more of the SIG chairs and contribute. As the Interchange folks often say ; ... the dialog is the group The administrator and general contact person for Interchange is Patty Brown who can be reached at (201) 758-7575. Please call her for administrative details. Give her a call and get a BBS account established. Your representatives to Interchange are: Jim Schultz (205) 544-2937 Executive committee and library Garry Cook (303) 794-2601 Data Acq sig Larry Rogers (401) 847-7868 Graphics Dale Chayes (914) 359-2900 Executive committee and RTU-SIG In summary, I think that it is appropriate to change the name of comp.sys.masscomp to comp.sys.concurrent. [ I appologize as well. Somehow this article sit in the inqueue for a long time before it was posted. -- sob] Articles to: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu or uunet!soma.bcm.tmc.edu!masscomp Administrative stuff: masscomp-request@soma.bcm.tmc.edu Stan Barber, Moderator